Finest collection question
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This is my first season. Thus, I have not played for Finest cards other than the handful already released.
I posted this in another thread and am genuinely curious if these ideas are even a remote possibility: If I'm way off and there is no chance SDS would work outside the box a bit, would this even appeal to anyone?
Does the collection reward (assuming there is one) have to be a Finest from a previous season? Could it be a second player from a team this year? For example, let's say they gave the Padres a Mark Melacon Finest and made Tatis the ultimate Finest collection reward?
I understand the concept that Finest is the best player on a team so having 2 from one team sort of defeats that. In that case, can they invent one from a prior year? If Trout never had one before, couldn't they make him a Finest from a previous year as a new card? Or, along those lines, why not create a Finest Griffey Jr. From 1997, Albert Pujols from 2009 or Babe Ruth from 1926.
This is a video game with a fantasy twist where Eddie Rosario is equal to Lou Gehrig and Future Stars play as Hall of Famers. Why do they have to stick to some sort of made up rules?
I'm just spit balling here. I'm sure they'll do none of the above but I don't really see why they couldn't.
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They've always had more then one per team every year
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@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
They've always had more then one per team every year
Wait really? I thought each team got 1 Finest and everyone had been predicting 1 guy per team like Wheeler for the Phillies and Tatis for the Padres. How many per team?
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@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
They've always had more then one per team every year
Wait really? I thought each team got 1 Finest and everyone had been predicting 1 guy per team like Wheeler for the Phillies and Tatis for the Padres. How many per team?
So they usually do 1 per team, and then also do the standouts of that year alongside those 1 per team ones. So Tatis, Burnes, Soto, etc will get one along with the normal one from their team, so like Melancon in the Padres case like your example
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@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
They've always had more then one per team every year
Wait really? I thought each team got 1 Finest and everyone had been predicting 1 guy per team like Wheeler for the Phillies and Tatis for the Padres. How many per team?
So they usually do 1 per team, and then also do the standouts of that year alongside those 1 per team ones. So Tatis, Burnes, Soto, etc will get one along with the normal one from their team, so like Melancon in the Padres case like your example
Very cool, so were the secondary players henchmen in TA4 or were they in a different program? Sorry for all the questions, just super curious. Thanks.
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In the past Finest has been a program/collection too. With TA5 being Finest they could do a collection that rewards Finest rewards. I think Ohtani as a try dual option would be cool and he was the best player in baseball. I would think that the program gives SDS some flexibility to reward unique instances where two guys on a few teams deserve a Finest card. I could see 3 hitters and 2 pitchers being part of that reward structure outside of each team Finest.
Also, there is going to be another collection with TA5. Likely called the "Last One" or "Ultimate One". Something will tell us that this is it. That player will not be a traditional pitcher so think Ruth, Griffey, Pujols, Ohtani. SDS has done a great job with content and stretching it out over the year. In the past they did an inning program where the only reward was Griffey. I think they might do the same this year where the only reward is Mike Trout. November should be fun.
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@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
They've always had more then one per team every year
Wait really? I thought each team got 1 Finest and everyone had been predicting 1 guy per team like Wheeler for the Phillies and Tatis for the Padres. How many per team?
So they usually do 1 per team, and then also do the standouts of that year alongside those 1 per team ones. So Tatis, Burnes, Soto, etc will get one along with the normal one from their team, so like Melancon in the Padres case like your example
Very cool, so were the secondary players henchmen in TA4 or were they in a different program? Sorry for all the questions, just super curious. Thanks.
They usually drop finest packs two, with base rounds and a rare round. Thats where the extra Finest players are.
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@guccigangchuck said in Finest collection question:
@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
They've always had more then one per team every year
Wait really? I thought each team got 1 Finest and everyone had been predicting 1 guy per team like Wheeler for the Phillies and Tatis for the Padres. How many per team?
So they usually do 1 per team, and then also do the standouts of that year alongside those 1 per team ones. So Tatis, Burnes, Soto, etc will get one along with the normal one from their team, so like Melancon in the Padres case like your example
Very cool, so were the secondary players henchmen in TA4 or were they in a different program? Sorry for all the questions, just super curious. Thanks.
They usually drop finest packs two, with base rounds and a rare round. Thats where the extra Finest players are.
Last year, the rare round cards were much cheaper than the base round because of all the guaranteed rare packs.
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@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
They've always had more then one per team every year
Wait really? I thought each team got 1 Finest and everyone had been predicting 1 guy per team like Wheeler for the Phillies and Tatis for the Padres. How many per team?
Not every team gets two finest players. It one per team and a collection that has several elite finest. The cream of the crop so to speak. Last year Juan Soto was the card that everyone wanted. Possibly the best hitting card SDS had ever released. His contact and power was like 125 from both sides. It was the most unrealistic card I had ever seen. The caveat to this card was it came with a severe defensive penalty (and rightly so, Soto is a defensive liability and is destined for a life as a DH when it becomes universal)
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@killerpresence4 said in Finest collection question:
@ericulous1_psn said in Finest collection question:
@eatyum_psn said in Finest collection question:
They've always had more then one per team every year
Wait really? I thought each team got 1 Finest and everyone had been predicting 1 guy per team like Wheeler for the Phillies and Tatis for the Padres. How many per team?
Not every team gets two finest players. It one per team and a collection that has several elite finest. The cream of the crop so to speak. Last year Juan Soto was the card that everyone wanted. Possibly the best hitting card SDS had ever released. His contact and power was like 125 from both sides. It was the most unrealistic card I had ever seen. The caveat to this card was it came with a severe defensive penalty (and rightly so, Soto is a defensive liability and is destined for a life as a DH when it becomes universal)
Soto has greatly improved on defense since going to RF. He isn't going to blow anyone away out there of course but he isn't nearly a liability anymore
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